Site Reliability Engineer, TikTok Product

About the team

The Product Engineering team monitors and maintains the availability of TikTok, including services such as video playback, content discovery/recommendations, live streaming, and customer service feedback.

Responsibilities

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Site Reliability Engineer to join our growing team. You will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, performance, and scalability of our production systems. You will play a critical role in ensuring our systems are designed and operated with resiliency and high availability in mind.

In this role, you will

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, deploy, and operate large-scale, high-availability systems
• Develop and maintain automation tools and processes to improve the reliability and efficiency of our systems
• Act as a technical lead for SRE-related initiatives, providing guidance and mentorship to team members
• Work closely with software engineers to diagnose and resolve production issues
• Continuously monitor and evaluate the health of our systems, proactively identifying and addressing potential issues before they become problems
• Drive innovation and improvement in our infrastructure and processes through experimentation and research
• Participate in the design and implementation of disaster recovery plans

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor or above degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline
• 3+ years experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Production Engineering or similar role, working with large-scale distributed systems
• Strong understanding of containers and container orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes
• In-depth knowledge of Unix/Linux systems administration, network fundamentals and storage systems

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency in one or more programming languages, such as C, C++, Java, Python, Go, Ruby, Rust, JavaScript
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.